So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[tonyb]

Considering the amounts the dewy-eyed bride and I have spent in subsidizing her sister and said sister’s kid (to whom she gave birth at age 16), I figure I’m due a parade, minimally. Maybe a statue in a park named for me.

But no. She prefers to think that every success she has had in this life is her doing and her doing alone. Acknowledging that anyone else had a role in that would run contrary to her preferred autobiographical narrative.

 

[3fingers]

Considering the amounts the dewy-eyed bride and I have spent in subsidizing her sister and said sister’s kid (to whom she gave birth at age 16), I figure I’m due a parade, minimally. Maybe a statue in a park named for me.

But no. She prefers to think that every success she has had in this life is her doing and her doing alone. Acknowledging that anyone else had a role in that would run contrary to her preferred autobiographical narrative.

As annoying as it is, take comfort in the knowledge that such things are not rare. You, my good man, are not alone. The problem seems to be that once that particular train leaves the station it is very difficult to jump off.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's pretty much the Great American Narrative, and it isn't true for anyone who's ever believed it.

 

[3fingers]

That's pretty much the Great American Narrative, and it isn't true for anyone who's ever believed it.

I have noticed that those who wish for everyone to know about their homerun hope that no one remembers their being carried to third base.

 

[tonyb]

There’s some satisfaction is knowing we helped provide the kid with stable housing through his adolescent years. Prior to that he got moved so often that he kept his meager worldly possessions — his clothing and toys — in plastic garbage bags, so as to spare himself having to gather them in a hurry for yet another midnight move.

He’s doing well now. Graduated college, in a grad program. Got a kid of his own. He ain’t married, but he and the baby’s mom live under the same roof.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have noticed that those who wish for everyone to know about their homerun hope that no one remembers their being carried to third base.

Ruth would never have hit 714 if the pitchers hadn't been afraid to pitch around him because Gehrig was up next.

 

[tonyb]

The short-on-the-sides-long-on-top haircuts seen on too many young men these days.

 

[Zombie_61]

The short-on-the-sides-long-on-top haircuts seen on too many young men these days.

A few weeks ago I was at a local restaurant waiting for my take-out order when I saw three young men walking down the street. I thought two of them were wearing flat caps until they got closer and I saw it was just the way their hair was cut.

 

[3fingers]

As goofy as we may think that haircut is, at least it doesn't include some shade of fluorescent/neon blue, red, purple or green.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The short-on-the-sides-long-on-top haircuts seen on too many young men these days.

Considering that that is how I wear my hair...

 

[tonyb]

Considering that that is how I wear my hair...

Mine’s a variation on that look: short on the sides and none on the top.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Short on sides, long on top. That brings to mind some unpleasant types:

Still, you shouldn't judge a man by his haircut, but it would make me think twice before I gave my barber his "marching orders".

 

[3fingers]

Here you go. Pick one.

 

[Zombie_61]

As goofy as we may think that haircut is, at least it doesn't include some shade of fluorescent/neon blue, red, purple or green.

Maybe not where you live...

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The Wide Root." Sometimes the Boys do ring the bell.

There's a barber shop across the street here where the clientele is made up pretty much exclusively of bald-headed men, who always come out with their scalps gleaming. We suspect his secret treatment is Turtle Wax.

 

[Touchofevil]

Mine’s a variation on that look: short on the sides and none on the top.

Mine is a variation of that: none on the sides and none on the top. I have had that style for 24 years. The day I became brave enough to give it a go was a great day for me.

 

[Touchofevil]

When the customer service is piss poor up until they bring you the bill and they turn on the charm. Doesn't work for me.

 

[HanauMan]

The short-on-the-sides-long-on-top haircuts seen on too many young men these days.

Actually, this look goes way back. Many men in the 'Fedora Era' wore that style, one just has to look at the mugshots of the 20s - 40s to see some pretty good examples of this style. They also show that the criminals of that by-gone age dressed pretty smart compared to their modern counterparts.

 

[BobHufford]

People who will steal your old, beat up farm gate.

Discovered our gate missing this afternoon. Someone cut the chain with a torch (the melted link was on the ground). It wasn't worth much as a gate as it was nearly 40 years old and was quite bent as it had been rammed with a truck more than once as thieves attempted to get on the property when we were gone. Do tweakers looking for scrap metal carry a cutting torch?

This was at 4:00 on a Saturday and the nearest small town's Ace Hardware was closing at 5:00. Off I went to buy a nearly $200 14-foot gate to replace this one. Ugh...

Then this evening the neighbor comes up on his ATV and says he found our gate in the creek where the road crosses (we no longer have a bridge as it washed out last year). Did it just fall off their truck as they climbed the bank?

Now we're wondering if someone "borrowed" the gate to use it as traction after they got stuck trying to cross the creek (which happens a couple of times a week).

Not sure which is worse...

 

[GHT]

What a sad tale, and what a moron for taking an old farm gate. There's a farmer near the airport, not that far from where I live, who was plagued by travellers and Romanies. They regularly smashed through his gate and then set up an illegal campsite. The farmer would then have to go to court to evict the travellers. One time however, after they ignored his demand to leave, he left and came back with his muck spreader, and muck is a polite term for what it really was. After the travellers had left the farmer dug a deep trench all the way around his field, then he covered it with bracken and dead leaves. A couple of days later he found one of the travellers stuck in the trench. Later, when it was reported in the newspaper, the only reason the farmer wasn't prosecuted was because he had erected big signs warning of deep ditches. The travellers trespass and the farmer is threatened with prosecution. The world's gone mad.